1 / 14

Exploring the New Features of OPC Systems.NET

Exploring the New Features of OPC Systems.NET. UDP Broadcast/Receive OPC Excel.NET. Renee Sikes Applications Engineer Email : rsikes@softwaretoolbox.com Phone : +1 (704) 849 2773. Agenda. Introduce OPC Systems.NET Introduce new features UDP Broadcast and Receive OPC Excel.NET

ide
Download Presentation

Exploring the New Features of OPC Systems.NET

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Exploring the New Features of OPC Systems.NET UDP Broadcast/Receive OPC Excel.NET Renee Sikes Applications Engineer Email: rsikes@softwaretoolbox.com Phone: +1 (704) 849 2773

  2. Agenda • Introduce OPC Systems.NET • Introduce new features • UDP Broadcast and Receive • OPC Excel.NET • Live Demo – Connecting to Excel • Summary • Questions & Answers We’ll get here quickly!

  3. OPC Systems Components • Windows Applications • Controls .NET, Alarm.NET, Trend.NET, Gauge.NET • Web Applications • WebControls.NET, WebAlarm.NET, WebTrend.NET

  4. OPC Systems Components • WPF Applications • WPF.NET • Mobile Applications • Mobile.NET • Data Management • Database.NET, Report.NET, Recipe.NET, Client.NET, Route.NET, Excel.NET

  5. OPC Systems .NET Benefits OPC Systems .NET provides these benefits: • Central “always-on” tag repository = faster performance • Tag data can come from OPC DA and/or Databases, including Excel • Multi-Threaded for faster, and more Reliable operations • Buffers data, eliminating data-loss for short outages as well as maximizing the performance of your web-link • Modular, components available separately or as a suite • Affordable, not as expensive as you might think • OPC Self-Certified, for assurance in quality • NO MORE DCOM HEADACHES

  6. .Net Remoting Data Source OPC Server PLC DCS Other How it works… • Tag repository stores Data, and some history • Data can come from OPC Servers • OPC Connection is always ON eliminating connectivity overhead • Applications see the data when it opens • .Net Remoting transfers the data WITHOUT DCOM OPC Systems .NETService(Tag Repository)

  7. .Net Remoting Data Source OPC Server PLC DCS Other How it works… • Application requests an “update” of the items/tags it needs. • OPC Systems .NET Server responds with values that have changed: • If value remains same, empty data-set returned • If 1-value changed, that value is returned • If the value changed multiple times, all updates sent OPC Systems .NETService(Tag Repository)

  8. OPC Systems .NET Service(Tag Repository) Queue Queue Queue Local Network Internet Client Application Client Application Client Application Tolerance • Tag Repository individually “caches” data to each client • If a client goes temporarily offline, it will “catch-up” on the next update. • Applies to ALL OPC Systems .NET Clients(data logging, alarms, WinForms, WebForms etc.)

  9. UDP Broadcast and Receive • Broadcast all OPC Systems tagvaluesto specified UDP clients • Receive UDP broadcast messages of tag values from remote OPC Systems services • Built-in security • Value transfer is one-way • Easy configuration

  10. OPC Excel.NET • Read and Write data in Excel • Unlimited remote Excel connections to OPC Systems service without NetDDE • Uses RTD function to communicate • Combine with other OPC Systems features to get data from Excel to Visual Studio applications, web applications, data bases, reports, etc.

  11. OPC Excel.NET • Free configuration utility to help you properly create formulas to read/write tags, or read timestamps • Confirmation of data exchange for added reliability • Connect to Excel 2003, 2007, and 2010

  12. Live Demo • UDP Broadcast/Receive • Set up UDP Broadcast on VPC • Set up UDP receive on host • Demonstrate Excel worksheet • Read a tag with its timestamp • Write tags • View Security Settings

  13. Affordable *Support and Maintenance contracts are available for 20% of the total license cost Contact us for pricing for higher tag counts • Code-less development tools are Runtime-free • Fully documented, lots of examples • SmartClient Technology ready • No OPC Server Connection or Client Connection Counts • No Text File or Database Connection Counts

  14. More Information … get through to an expert! Questions: Renee Sikes: Email: Technical Support: Tel: +1 (704) 849-2773 Web: http://support.softwaretoolbox.com rsikes@softwaretoolbox.com www.softwaretoolbox.com/opcsystems

More Related